Senior Manager Sustainability

About Mace

Mace combines construction expertise with consultancy to enhance projects and redefine ambition. The company's values guide its approach and define the professionals it seeks to join its team.

The Project and Role

This is an opportunity to work on a large-scale program in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The project involves a major mixed-use development, including sports facilities, entertainment, arts, and associated infrastructure. Mace is a delivery partner for this program, seeking a Senior Manager Sustainability to lead integrated teams. This is a part-time role requiring over 10 years of experience.

The Senior Manager Sustainability will manage sustainability across the commercial offices business unit, translating vision into investment-ready office assets. This role involves providing expert guidance throughout design and delivery, coordinating multidisciplinary consultants, ensuring regulatory and sustainability compliance, and driving value engineering and performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Champion safety, ensuring compliance with HSE standards and fostering a positive safety culture.
• Manage end-to-end project delivery, maintaining quality systems and supporting senior leaders to achieve program milestones.
• Oversee budgets, risks, and ethical governance, contributing to long-term business sustainability.
• Lead collaborative project teams, driving performance, stakeholder engagement, and best practice innovation across all project phases.
• Oversee safety, wellbeing, and leadership values, fostering a collaborative, accountable, and high-performing culture.
• Manage sustainability input across design, procurement, commercial, risk, and technical interfaces.
• Manage consultant deliverables, ensuring compliance with project briefs, regulations, and sustainability standards.
• Coordinate stakeholders, manage design risks, and report progress against agreed milestones.
• Support design managers in coordination with external consultants through design stages, ensuring conformity to project objectives and providing recommendations.
• Review outputs of design consultants, including related design documentation, to ensure compliance with all project requirements and strategy.
• Manage coordination and collaboration between development, delivery, construction, consultants, contractors, and authorities to identify design risks early and propose mitigating strategies.

Company Values

Mace operates on core values that guide its work and team interactions:

• Safety first - Going home safe and well: Championing a safe, diverse, and inclusive working environment.
• Client focus - Deliver on our promise: Owning the quality of deliverables and building long-term client relationships.
• Integrity - Always do the right thing: Influencing positive outcomes while aligning with compliance obligations.
• Create opportunity - For our people to excel: Fostering a continuous improvement culture and inspiring team development.

Application Information

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Candidates who may not fulfill all listed criteria are still encouraged to apply. The company is open to discussing part-time, flexible, and hybrid working options where suitable for the role.